Episode 305: TMBA305: Building Teams of A Players
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/aplayer/ This week we are talking about hiring. If you have a business that has less than 15 employees, every single employee has to be an A Player. You can't afford to have B and C level players working for you. This is specifically aimed at everyone out there who should be hiring, or has hired employees. This episode is full of 301 and 401 level material, and you absolutely need to pass this class if you are going to have a successful business. We'll be talking all about how to hire A players and how to purge B and C players from your business.
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| 0:00.0 | And if be successful means a little yogurt land, buy yourself at night, I'm all right with that. |
| 0:07.7 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:09.2 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:13.8 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:18.9 | more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:21.9 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:27.1 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:35.9 | Again, I had the privilege of having beers and tacos with our buddy Eric Vanholz of Beard Brand the other night. |
| 0:42.3 | And we started to talk about the topic of hiring and why it's so important to hire A players for your company. |
| 0:49.2 | I think if you're sub, 5 million, zero to 15 employees, every single one of your employees has to be an A player. |
| 0:55.2 | Yep. There's absolutely no escaping this course in the tropical MBA. You need to pass this |
| 1:01.0 | class if you're going to grow a successful business. This is going to be a level 301, 401 episode. |
| 1:06.7 | It's for everybody out there who should be hiring or has hired, how to hire A players and how to |
| 1:11.7 | purge B and C players. All right. So first, let's roll a phone call we got from Andres. |
| 1:18.2 | Hey, guys, this is Andres from boutiquejapan.com, a long time listener, and somehow my second |
| 1:24.2 | time calling in the past couple weeks. I wanted to find out about your guys's |
| 1:28.0 | morning routines. I'm not sure if you've talked about that, but I know you travel a lot, |
| 1:32.1 | and I'm just curious, do you have kind of a morning or daily routine that you adhere to while you |
| 1:37.7 | travel or not really? We'd love to hear you guys chat about that football as well. Keep up the good work. |
| 1:43.0 | Yeah, you know, Ian Ian you can't shake a stick |
| 1:44.6 | at a podcast without people talking about you know which morning routines they're doing and that was me |
| 1:49.8 | meditating by the way I meditated this morning you know I didn't meditated a road in my journal I did |
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